Eastern religions give us this idea of the perfect afterlife as being a loss of self - a re-immersion into a greater whole. But is that really your idea of heaven? To cease to exist - to be absorbed - to completely lose yourself? How does that differ from a drugged or drunken stupour?
Wouldn't you prefer to be re-united with those you have loved and who have gone before, not in the sense of meeting the same terrible fate of simply being re-absorbed into some unfeeling power source, but to actually meet them - you as you and they as they. Wouldn't it be better to continue being you, but in an infinite sense - and a purer sense. Not to be less than you are now, but more? That is much closer to my idea of heaven. It isn't an ego thing - to be fair, the Eastern idea of re-immersion into godhead is hardly less so. I wouldn't want any special powers or to be the boss or anything. I'd be quite happy to be a subject of the Benevolent Creator.
I consider a complete loss of self to be quite a chilling prospect - the opposite of heaven in fact. And we know what the opposite of heaven is.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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